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The end is nigh : British politics, power, and the road to the Second World War
Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 by those who did not want to hear of the growing threats to peace in Europe. Although it is a familiar story, it is one we need to unlearn as the truth is somewhat murkier. 0The End is Nigh is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War. Journeying from the corridors of Whitehall to the smoking rooms of Parliament, and from aircraft factories to summit meetings with Hitler, the book offers a fresh and provocative interpretation of one of the most crucial moments of British history. It assembles a cast of iconic characters-Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, and more-to explore the dangerous interaction between high politics at Westminster and the formulation of national strategy in a world primed to explode.0In the twenty-first century we are accustomed to being cynical about politicians, mistrusting what they say and wondering about their real motives, but Robert Crowcroft argues that this was always the character of democratic politics. In The End is Nigh he challenges some of the most resilient public myths of recent decades-myths that, even now, remain an important component of Britain's self-image.
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'What is Happening in Europe?' Richard Stokes, Fascism, and the Anti-War Movement in the British Labour Party during the Second World War and After
This article analyses the political career of the Labour Party MP Richard Rapier Stokes, one of the leading anti-war agitators in Britain during the Second World War. Stokes was a highly unconventional politician: not only was he more fearful of the threat posed by the Soviet Union than Nazi Germany but he was actually a fascist fellow-traveller and a member of numerous fascist groups. Campaigning to halt the struggle between Britain and Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Stokes became a prominent figure in extremist politics. Yet, he also came to lead the traditional pacifist element of the Labour Party through the Parliamentary Peace Aims Group that he founded to argue his case. The nature of his political sympathies has not previously been appreciated. After the war, Stokes worked with European anti-communist groups, comprised largely of fascists, before serving briefly in the cabinet towards the end of the 1945–51 Labour government. This article seeks to reconstruct the career of this neglected figure and integrate him within the literature of both the Labour Party and extremist politics.
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